Cris70 wrote:
Unfortunately, it turned out that NeoRouter is exactly *that* kind of company
I think that's a little unfair as they do offer a free package that requires your own resources and keeping a machine on to support it, and that has a cost attached in the way of power and maintenance etc.
Neorouter isn't some mega corp. and the Mesh service requires an investment in hardware and other associated costs such as development, management etc. I'm all in favour of things being free but not at the expense of others.
The costs required to run the free NeoRouter service would probably be quite close to the costs of a basic Mesh subscription. Obviously your NeoRouter server machine would be doing other tasks which would off set the costs but there is a price to pay.
I would agree with an earlier comment about having a low cost ($4.99 pm?) 5 user license maybe restricted to private use with no official support, other than the forum. Or perhaps 5 support tickets a year or one months support at the beginning something along those lines.
A return of $5 pm from a number of enthusiastic users is better than $0 from people sitting on the sidelines.
I think an option like that would increase awareness of the Mesh and NeoRouter generally. If people are using something personally they are much more likely to suggest it's use in a work environment.